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Loading... The Dukays (1949)by Lajos Zilahy
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Imagine the story of a Hungarian family -- several generations thereof -- told with the same kind of emotional and sexual flapdoodle some of us associate with TOBACCO ROAD and FOREVER AMBER. Compariosn are odious, I know. . . but sometimes they are irresistible. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesGallimard, Folio (3364) Distinctions
The Dukays are the oldest aristocratic family in Hungary, and this is the tale of their inexorable decline after the First World War. It is the story of Zia Dukay, youngest of Count Dupi's daughters, a modern girl born into feudal splendor in the immense family castle of Ararat, and married with medieval pomp. Not since Scarlett O'Hara has there been so courageous a heroine, so determined to survive the wreck of family fortunes with the man she loves. It is also the story of Zia's sister Christina, romantically involved with the deposed Hapsburg king; of her brother Georgy, who leaves for America; and of Janos, who becomes a Nazi. Told in great richness of detail, The Dukays is a tumultuous and sweeping saga. Lajos Zilahy is the leading Hungarian novelist of the 20th century; among his books are Two Prisoners and Century in Scarlet. No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)894.5113Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Fenno-Ugric languages Ugric languages Hungarian Hungarian fictionLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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